Synonyms for meanness
mean·ness

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1. meanness

   Synonyms:
   penuriousness, littleness, selfishness, baseness, smallness, illiberality, ungenerousness, sordidness

   Antonyms:
   nobleness, unselfishness, liberality, generousness, large-heartedness

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1. beastliness, meannessnoun

   the quality of being deliberately mean

   Synonyms:
   tightness, niggardliness, minginess, closeness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightfistedness, beastliness, niggardness

2. meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closenessnoun

   extreme stinginess

   Synonyms:
   nearness, tautness, parsimoniousness, thrift, penny-pinching, constriction, parsimony, closeness, stringency, stuffiness, niggardliness, denseness, concentration, tightfistedness, beastliness, familiarity, compactness, secretiveness, minginess, tightness, intimacy, niggardness, density

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1. • Malevolence

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1. meannessnoun

   Synonyms:
   smallness, littleness, scantiness, slenderness, lowness, poverty, meagreness, poorness

2. meannessnoun

   Synonyms:
   abjectness, vileness, baseness, contemptibleness, abasement, despicableness

3. meannessnoun

   Synonyms:
   illiberality, ungenerousness, sordidness, penuriousness

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1. List of paraphrases for "meanness":

   pettiness, cruelty

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1. Al Hunt:

   Donald Trump's Donald Trump, not because I disagree with Donald Trump policies -- though I disagree with many -- but I think there is a carelessness, a recklessness, meanness and, I think, corruption.

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

3. John Adams:

   It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.

4. George Sand:

   Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

5. Plato:

   Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.